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Visions Unsettled explores how identity has been imagined, fractured, and performed across the Hispanic world from the sixteenth century to today. The exhibition features early modern artworks by artists such as Francisco de Goya (1746–1818), Alonso Sánchez Coello (1538–1588), and Deschamps de la Talaire (active ca. 1760) alongside images by twentieth and twenty-first century photographers such as Kati Horna (1912–2000), Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002), and Mayu Mohannu (born 1968). In so doing, it explores how early interrogations of race, gender, visibility, and the gaze intersect with more contemporary meditations on ritual, marginality, and kinship. The result is a transhistorical meditation on selfhood, in which the portrait becomes not merely a record, but a performative space where the self is staged, contested, and continuously reimagined as a stage for becoming. 

Visions Unsettled is curated by Yoel Castillo Botello, Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (2024–2025) and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (2025–2026) and students in his Spring 2025 course Portraits of Exile: Identity and Performance in Spanish Culture. The exhibition is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment.